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Quotations of the Day: October 2008
October 31, 2008
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him. —Garrett Fort
October 30, 2008
Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied, / Go also to the nerve-racked, go to the enslaved-by-convention, / Bear to them my contempt for their oppressors. —Ezra Pound
October 29, 2008
We must take our friends as they are. —James Boswell
October 28, 2008
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. —Evelyn Waugh
October 27, 2008
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. —Theodore Roosevelt
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. —Lord Macaulay
October 24, 2008
Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof. —Sarah Josepha Hale
October 23, 2008
To-morrow it seem / Like the empty words of a dream / Remembered on waking. —Robert Bridges
October 22, 2008
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. —John Reed
October 21, 2008
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
October 20, 2008
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. —James 1:19
October 19, 2008
I don’t think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. —John le Carré
October 18, 2008
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. —G.W.F. Hegel
October 17, 2008
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. —Arthur Miller
October 16, 2008
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life. —Eugene O’Neill
October 15, 2008
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist. —Charles Erwin Wilson
October 14, 2008
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. —William Penn
October 13, 2008
The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg. —Margaret Thatcher
October 12, 2008
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. —John F. Kennedy
October 11, 2008
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace. —Eleanor Roosevelt
October 10, 2008
It’s not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave. —Meridel Le Sueur
October 9, 2008
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. —John Lennon
October 8, 2008
Give me to die unwitting of the day, / And stricken in Life’s brave heat, with senses clear! —Edmund Clarence Stedman
We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. —T.S. Eliot
October 5, 2008
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. —Charlie Chaplin
October 4, 2008
I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is six to five against. —Damon Runyon
October 3, 2008
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. —Gore Vidal
